22/ “Philip says he “looked ahead 10 to 20 years and saw ourselves older and possibly without family, with diminishing ability to travel, in a country where I didn’t see whites, let alone Jews, being a priority.”
32/ Israel’s education ministry: “Such integration may harm the cultural and family roots of the students and create a unification of cultures in a manner that would erase and blur the identity and the community from which they come.”
On @KamalaHarris and fortifying Black-Palestinian solidarity.
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Over the years, the strength of Black-Palestinian solidarity has been increasingly recognised as a threat by Israel and American Zionists.
2/ They view intersectional and anti-colonial solidarity as a threat because it challenges and dismantles divisive Zionist propaganda. see below- reutgroup.org/Publications/n…
3/ In the past, liberal Zionist media and major Zionist lobbies have launched smear campaigns against BLM, accusing the movement of anti-Semitism. aljazeera.com/opinions/2020/…
Israeli anti-Zionists, more so than Jewish anti-Zionists, possess a unique ability to deeply understand and articulate the experience of being fully immersed in Zionist propaganda and then dismantling it after decolonizing our minds.
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2/ Jewish anti-Zionists who are not Israeli cannot fully grasp this process - and they should be grateful for that.
The idea that Jewishness should be central (or even at the forefront) to anti-Zionism is not only ahistorical (most Zionists are Xtian), it is counterproductive.
3/ The Israeli anti-Zionist perspective is important because liberal Zionism is a subtle yet particularly insidious force driving apartheid and genocidal policies against Palestinians. Israeli liberals who advocate for “peace” and a two-state solution
Short reality check (8/1/24): For the past 300 days, since Oct. 7th, 2023, the Palestinian people, particularly inhabitants of Gaza but also the West Bank, have been enduring a brutal Zionist campaign of murderous violence, annihilating tens of thousands of lives,
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2/ leaving countless injured, without adequate medical care, starving, and unsafe from Israel’s US-supplied bombs, even within churches, mosques, schools and hospitals. According to reports from Al Jazeera, the numbers are staggering and mounting by the hour:
3/ 39,445 lives lost, including 15,000 children (plus >10000 missing); 91,073 injured (out of which at least 8663 children). These reprisals followed a deadly attack carried out by Hamas on October 7th, which led to the loss of 1,139 Israeli lives and the kidnapping
Every time Netanyahu, the American furniture salesman who became Israel’s longest serving PM, speaks to congress there’s a chorus of people who promote the tail wagging the dog hypothesis. This is ahistorical, counterproductive and dangerous.
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2/ It is ahistorical because Israel has always been in this position - reliant on empire, whether British or American, to sustain its white supremacist capitalist real estate project in Palestine. Nothing has changed in this regard;
3/ it is still reliant on material imperial support today - most notably weaponry. It doesn’t matter that it plays up its “Jewish” rhetoric, an age old propaganda technique, when every aspect of the state is structured like white supremacist apartheid and genocide.
Recently, real estate events in synagogues in Toronto, Los Angeles, and New Jersey, among other locations, have promoted property sales in Israel and the Occupied West Bank.
2/ Marketing property assets in "Anglo neighborhoods," events of this nature target Zionist Jews from the US, Canada and the rest of the English-speaking West.
3/ Notably, establishment and expansion of settlements in the West Bank and East Jerusalem are widely recognized as violations of international humanitarian and human rights law. press.un.org/en/2023/sc1542…
Antisemites and Zionists have long collaborated toward mutual interests. While the former have been interested in ridding Europe and America of Jews, the latter have worked toward moving as many Jews as possible
2/ to Israel in order to Judaize it, i.e. as a weapon against the “demographic threat” posed by native Palestinians.
There are two major classes of anti-Semites. The first is religiously grounded and views Jews as lapsed children of god
3/ to be converted or employed as an instrument of the second coming of the messiah, and the second discriminates against Jews based on alleged biological differences, which are seen as underlying threats of ethical “contamination” and disintegration. Both groups support Trump.